DEADLY WILDS

Hunter Found Dead Days After Another 2 Were Killed Nearby

Colorado authorities say a 54-year-old man has died in the same area two others were killed in a lightning strike just over a week earlier.

A man has died in the same area of Colorado where two hunters were killed more than a week ago. Dispatchers in Conejos County said they received an emergency call from hunters in the South San Juan Wilderness around 11.30 p.m. Friday, who said they were already performing CPR on a member of their party—a 54-year-old man from Tennessee, who has not yet been publicly named. Tragically, the man had already died by the time rescuers were on the scene. “Due to hazardous nighttime conditions, it was not safe to conduct a recovery mission with the Flight for Life helicopter,” officials from the local sheriff’s office clarified in a statement. It comes after elk hunters Andrew Porter and Ian Stasko, both 25, were found dead following what’s thought to have been a lightning strike in the same region, having suffered injuries consistent with an “intense electrical jolt,” according to the county coroner. The cause of death for the man who died on Friday has not been released.